Gitlab is a git front end with repository management, graphs, links, goodies, commands to run, and review capabilities similar in feel to a self hosted github.

Debian is running its own Instance of Gitlab under https://salsa.debian.org, which is not based on the packaged version.

Stretch

Gitlab 8.13.11 is available in stretch, but it is not receiving any security updates. So it is recommend to update to newer versions from unstable or stretch-backports. 

# apt-get install gitlab

Unstable

Gitlab 11.5.4 is available in unstable (no open security issues).

Stretch Backports

Gitlab 10.8.7 is waiting in backports-NEW (still affected by some security issues).

Gitlab 11.3.11 is available for stretch-backports via personal repo of gitlab maintainer (still affected by 2 security issues) from https://people.debian.org/~praveen/gitlab

Omnibus Packages

Note: this section is about installation of upstream-provided unofficial packages.

Install

all actions are performed under root user, in ~ unless otherwise noted.

Step 1

navigate to https://www.gitlab.com/downloads/ and copy down the link to the debian deb package.

as of this writing @ june, 5, 2014

run

Step 2

run

Step 3

i got errors 1st time around 2nd time around gitlab looked like it set everything and ran well.

To avoid errors, execute /opt/gitlab/embedded/bin/runsvdir-start for one minute, more or less (tested in 7.9.0 and 7.9.1 omnibus versions).

run

to verify that things are running

run

Step 4

navigate to your servers ip address or domain name, and login as:

user: root password: 5iveL!fe

External Resources

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/omnibus-gitlab/blob/master/README.md